7 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2019

by Scott Carlson

1. Cole, Dunne Steal The Show

Adam Cole Pete Dunne
WWE.com

When the NXT Championship match began with Adam Cole and Pete Dunne selling their injuries from TakeOver: WarGames, you got the sinking feeling that they were going to use the wounds to dumb the match down to WWE pace (noticeably slower, more basic).

Instead, the two ramped things up and just unloaded on each other, hitting all their signature spots. Dunne hit his X-Plex, moonsault to the floor and a Bitter End for a close two count. Cole caught Dunne’s attempted moonsault out of the corner with a superkick, nailed a Panama Sunrise on the apron and hit a Shining Wizard.

There were too many false finishes to count, but the actual ending was memorable: Dunne went for a second Bitter End, only for Cole to seamlessly counter into a modified Panama Sunrise, and then immediately nail the Last Shot for the pin.

Great, great match. If you weren’t a fan of NXT before the match, you had to be afterward.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.